The Magic Numbers

The Magic Numbers’ new album Alias was released on Monday and we’re delighted to be able to bring you this exclusive track-by-track of the new record. Alias is the Mercury Prize nominees’ fourth album. The band will support the record’s…

The Magic Numbers are heading out on their first ever acoustic tour later this year as they prepare for the release of their fourth album. The four-piece are avoiding many of the usual live music hot spots and are instead…

My first encounter with Michele Stodart was at London’s Apple Cart Festival in 2011. Brandishing a steel string guitar which she performed her stunning renditions of love, loss and wise experience: she takes you to a place which could just…

Remember Michele Stodart? Sure you do, she’s the bass player from mid-noughties indie-pop heroes The Magic Numbers. Michele has been playing solo shows around London for a while now, and is soon to release her debut album, The Wide-Eyed Crossing.…

If The Magic Numbers are a little too ‘shiny happy people’ for you, bassist Michele Stodart’s solo foray into country and blues territory is a far grittier prospect. We may be at the underpopulated, family-orientated Apple Cart festival (littler, more…

There’s a new contender for the UK’s loveliest small festival. Honeyfest was organised after villiagers in the Wiltshire town of Pewsey were given lottery funding to take over the running of their local pub, The Barge Inn. As well as…

FFS’s actual favourite Laura Marling is taking a trip to Wiltshire next month to play Honeyfest at the Barge Inn along with Dry the River and the Magic Numbers. The day-long festival was launched after a small village community were…

We’ve gone through the folkier end of the festival calender, and hereby bring you our picks. You won’t find any news on Glastonbury or Reading and Leeds, mind. We’re here to tell you about the things you might not have…